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Probably the fastest route to becoming a Linux Mint system administrator, this book takes you from AZ with clear step-by-step instructions, ranging from basic installation, to configuring networks, to troubleshooting. The perfect primer.
Overview
- Discover Linux Mint and learn how to install it.
- Learn basic shell commands and how to deal with user accounts.
- Find out how to carry out system administrator tasks such as monitoring, backups, and network configuration.
- Install and configure Linux Mint
- Basic shell commands
- Install, remove, and configure software
- Provision user accounts
- Configure your hardware
- Connect to other servers using different protocols
- Configure wireless and wired networks
- Create and restore backups of important information and data
- Harden your system
- Monitor resources and devices
- Discover and solve common issues
What you will learn from this book
Approach
A concise Packt Beginners Guide to get you started with administering a Linux Mint system.
Who this book is written for
.This book is for those users who want to become Linux Mint system administrators and need to start learning quickly. Its assumed that you have a basic knowledge of GNU/Linux operating systems, as well as being familiar with concepts, such as kernel, filesystems, users, accounts, groups, and disk partitions.
In DetailSystem administrators are responsible for keeping servers and workstations working properly. They perform actions to get a secure, stable, and robust operating system. In order to do that, system administrators perform actions such as monitoring, accounts maintenance, restoring backups, and software installation. All these actions and tasks are crucial to business success.
Linux Mint System Administrators Beginners Guide is a practical and concise guide that offers you clear step-by-step exercises to learn good practices, commands, tools, and tips and tricks to convert users into system administrators in record time.
Youll learn how to perform basic operations, such as create user accounts and install software. Moving forward, well find out more about important tasks executed daily by system administrators.
Data and information are very important so youll learn how to create and restore backups. You will also learn about one of the most important points of an operating system: security
Thanks to Linux Mint System Administrators Beginners Guide, youll learn all the basics you need to install and keep a robust and reliable Linux Mint operating system up to date.
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First published: December 2012
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Arturo Fernandez Montoro
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Arturo Fernandez Montoro is a Software Architect specializing in design, development, testing, and deployment of high-traffic web applications.
Since 2002, he has been writing on Linux and Open Source technologies for different printed and online magazines, such as Todo Linux, Linux+, Linux Magazine, and Free Software Magazine. Also, he has authored iPhone JavaScript Cookbook for Packt Publishing.
His professional experience includes working in technologies, such as Django, Ruby on Rails, J2EE, PHP, web application servers, relational and NoSQL databases, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS. He spent the last 3 years working as a Software Architect and Python/Django Lead Developer.
Currently, Arturo lives in Madrid working as a Software Architect for QDQ Media, one of the biggest online marketing agency in Spain. He can be reached at <>.
A very big thanks to the Linux Mint developers for developing one of the most amazing GNU/Linux distributions in the world. Millions of users enjoy Mint every day. Thanks for making my daily job easier.
Many thanks to my parents, who've always supported me in difficult times. They taught me to never give up.
Finally, I really appreciate all the work done by the team at Packt Publishing, thanks a lot for helping me publish this book.
Antonio Hernndez Daz is an active believer of Open Source from Seville, Spain. He has more than 10 years of experience working for IT companies, and although he is a web development expert, he always has known how to deal with any other kind of projects or technologies, such as desktop applications, mobile projects, or optimizing databases.
Since 2011, he has been involved in the development of various GNU/Linux distributions, either as a member of the Guadalinex development team (An Andalusian regional distribution), contributing humbly with Linux Mint, or just learning how to make Arch Linux ISOs in his free time.
When he is not working on some of his projects, it's not strange to see him on top of a kayak.
Dennis Schwertel is a software developer from Germany with many years of experience in working with Linux systems and developing desktop and large-scale web applications for international companies.
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I want to dedicate this book to those who think that my ideas and projects will never come true.
In the last 5 years, the number of users for Linux-based operating systems has significantly increased. Many computer users want to know more about Linux, and a lot of them are migrating from other systems such as Windows and Mac OS X. Currently, Linux Mint is one of the most used Linux-based operating system, and many users need to improve their abilities to perform advanced tasks with this operating system. These include connecting to other computers through FTP, creating shell scripts, and organizing users into groups.
Linux Mint System Administrator's Beginner's Guide offers a set of practical recipes to become a Linux system administrator. With this book, you'll learn the basic concepts and operations that a Linux system administrator needs to know and perform. We'll start from the basic operations such as installing Linux Mint, and continue progressively learning more advanced topics such as security and monitoring.
Despite the fact that we're going to work with Linux Mint, most of the concepts and actions described by this book can be applied to other Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora.
, Introduction to Linux Mint, is the "getting started" chapter of this book. It explains what Linux Mint is, what kind of editions exist, and why Linux Mint is different than other Linux distributions.
, Installing Linux Mint, teaches how to install Linux Mint on your computer. It offers a simple and easy-to-follow step-by-step guide for installing and booting this operating system.
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